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Saville was born Philip Saffer on 28 October 1927 at Marylebone, London (in later life he gave his birth year as 1930, a date repeated in all his obituaries), [5] son of Louis Saffer (who later assumed the anglicized form of the family name, "Saville", chosen by his father, Joseph Saffer, a master tailor), a travelling salesman for a clothing company, and Sadie Kathleen (known as "Kay"), née ...
It consists of two IV chord progressions, the second a whole step lower (A–E–G–D = I–V in A and I–V in G), giving it a sort of harmonic drive. There are few keys in which one may play the progression with open chords on the guitar, so it is often portrayed with barre chords ("Lay Lady Lay").
G major is the key stipulated for the royal anthem of Canada, "God Save the King". [4] The anthem "God Defend New Zealand" ("Aotearoa") was originally composed by John Joseph Woods in A-flat major, but after becoming New Zealand's national anthem in 1977, it was rearranged into G major to better suit general and massed singing. [5]
Alien, a Swedish rock band with Jim Jidhed as lead vocalist, reached number one in Sweden with their cover version. [21] The cover appeared on the band's self-titled debut album in 1988. The song was covered by Declan Galbraith on his "Thank You" album and by German actor and singer Uwe Ochsenknecht (simply billed as "Ochsenknecht") in 1992.
"And She Was" is a song by the American band Talking Heads, from their 1985 album Little Creatures. The song was written by David Byrne , who also provides the lead vocals. It reached No. 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 17 on the British singles chart.
Classics in the Key of G is the first cover album and ninth studio album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records on June 28, 1999 , and reached number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 13 on the Internet Albums chart, number 17 on the Billboard 200 and number 27 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Although the enharmonic key of A-flat major is preferred because A-flat major has only four flats as opposed to G-sharp major's eight sharps (including the F), G-sharp major appears as a secondary key area in several works in sharp keys, most notably in the Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
She has recently joined forces with Benjamin Oakes, a freelance publicist, his current primary contract to publicize the work of Italian Count Pandolfo who is building an airship i.e. a dirigible. Benjamin confesses to Josephine that he is a bastard, his long passed mother, a servant, never having told him the identity of his father, a ...